Sorry I haven’t been writing much lately but I was surfing and scuba diving in Hawaii with my family. A man has to have his priorities after all.

While I was on vacation the Grizzlies started working on their careers in Spain. After a hot and cold night against Unicaja Malaga that resulted in the Grizzlies losing by 3 points, the team rebounded and handedly took care of Estudiantes. The split was acceptable but no team that has lost to an European squad in the pre-season has ever made the playoffs. Something to keep in mind.
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THE BIG STORY

Three SEC teams are ranked in the top 10 of the first BCS poll, with more four teams in the top 25.

LSU is at No. 4 after suffering its first loss of the year at Kentucky on Saturday. The win moved Kentucky to No. 7 in the BCS, just behind No. 6 South Carolina. Florida is No. 15, Auburn No. 17, Georgia No. 20 and Tennessee No. 21.

“I’ll be honest with you,” LSU coach Les Miles (right) said Sunday night of the Tigers’ BCS ranking. “I am concerned about one thing and one thing only — our next opponent.”

South Carolina last appeared in the BCS rankings in November 2005 when the Gamecocks were No. 23 following a 30-22 win against Florida. The Gamecocks are one of seven SEC teams ranked in the top 21 in the BCS rankings and the Associated Press poll. Five of those seven are from the SEC East.

“I guess all these teams are having pretty decent years,” Carolina coach Steve Spurrier said, whose team plays Vanderbilt this week. “(Unranked) Vandy’s capable of beating everyone. We just hope it isn’t us this week.

“It’s a good conference, a good division, even though it’s a very tough division,” he added. “You’ve got to rely on somebody beating somebody else, and probably some kind of 6-2 record will win the division — maybe on both sides nowadays.”

Kentucky has become one of the biggest stories in college football and will have a chance to increase its national profile even more this week when ESPN’s Chris Fowler, Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Desmond Howard arrive in town to do their popular pre-game and post-game shows live from the Lexington campus.

Wildcats’ coach Rich Brooks said he spent much of the night following the LSU win talking to national sports radio shows to spread the word about his program, and said the CBS and GameDay showcases can bolster recruiting.

“When you’re in national rankings and GameDay comes to town, it’s just exposure to let recruits and young players know they can come to Kentucky and be in the thick of things just as well as the schools that have historically been in the thick of things,” Brooks said. “The more successful programs can’t say you can’t win at Kentucky anymore.”

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